Can we quarantine the quantum blight?

In Juha Saatsi & Steven French (eds.), Scientific Realism and the Quantum. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020)
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Abstract

No shield can protect scientific realism from dealing with the quantum measurement problem. One may be able to erect barriers around the observable or classical, preserving a realism about tables, chairs and the like, but there is no safety zone within the quantum realm, the domain of our best physical theory. The upshot is not necessarily that scientific realism is in trouble. That conclusion demands further arguments. The lesson instead may be that scientific realists ought to stake their case on particular interpretations of quantum theory. In any case, the realist can’t ignore the interpretational issues plaguing quantum mechanics.

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Craig Callender
University of California, San Diego

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